Crime Fiction Links of the Week for January 28, 2023

It's time again for Crime Fiction Links of the Week, our weekly round-up of interesting links about crime fiction from around the web, this week with Edgar Allen Poe at 214, the 2023 Academy Award nominations, series 3 of Happy Valley, season 2 of Mayor of Kingstown, Poker Face, Infinity Pool and much more:

Crime fiction in general:  

• Sarah Weinman shares an overview of recent crime and mystery novels.
• Alison Flood shares a round-up of her favourite recent crime novels and thrillers. 
• Paul Burke looks ahead at crime novels coming out in January 2023.
  
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week. 
• Molly Odintz shares twenty-five historical mysteries and crime novels coming out in 2023.
  
• Molly Odintz shares twelve YA mysteries, thrillers and horror novels coming out in 2023. 
• Crime Reads share their favourite non-fiction crime books coming out this month.
  
• Kevin Tipple shares his favourite crime novels of 2022. 
  
• Criminal Element pairs cozy mysteries with classic cocktails. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel shares their five favourite sleuths. 
• Elizabeth Held talks about the enduring appeal of the teen detective. 
• Addison Rizer recounts the history of the "the butler did it" trope in classic mysteries.
  
• Janice Hallett shares crime novels and thrillers featuring recently released or escaped prisoners. 
• Kate Alice Marshall shares five mysteries or thrillers about returning to your hometown. 
• Ross Armstrong shares mysteries that offer a look into fascinating minds. 
• Theresa DeLucci shares six horror thrillers for fans of the TV show Yellowjackets. 
  
• James Davis Nicoll talks about learning to love paper books again.  
• Molly Templeton asks what makes a story comforting. 
  
• Sarah Weinman discusses how Truman Capote played fast and loose with fact in In Cold Blood.
   

Edgar Allen Poe at 214:

• Bradley K. McDevitt profiles Edgar Allan Poe and his works.
  
• Scott Peeples explains how Edgar Allan Poe became the darling of the maligned and misunderstood. 
• Dave Kindy talks about Edgar Allen Poe's shortlived military career that became the basis of the movie The Pale Blue Eye.   
• Untapped New York shares ten places to remember Edgar Allen Poe in New York City.

 

Film and TV:

• Martin Edwards calls Stonehouse good entertainment, though he's not sure how accurate it is to the true case upon which it is based.
  
• Benjamin Lee calls Fair Play a knock-out thriller.
• Cath Clarke calls Pathaan a daft Bollywood spy caper that is more fun than James Bond.
  
• Leslie Felperin calls Renegades a stilted geri-action thriller.
  
• Benjamin Lee calls Eileen an off-kilter thriller. 
• Benjamin Lee declares that the film adaptation of Kristen Roupenian's viral short story "Cat Person" leans more into the thriller elements of the story than the original tale. 
  
• Hope Rehak explains how Our Flag Means Death helped her take emotional risks. 
• Adrian Horton praises the portrayal of emotional abuse in Alice, Darling.
  
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on series 4 of the Israeli spy series Fauda. 
• Peter Bradshaw shares his thoughts on the true crime documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. 
• Meredith Jacobs reports that the characters Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler finally kissed on Law and Order: SVU after more than twenty years of build-up.
  
• Dwyer Murphy shares his favourite fictional bank heist crews. 
• Steph Green claims that the erotic thriller will make a comeback on streaming services. 
• Cameron Gorman reports how young viewers are discovering the 1970s detective show Columbo via Tumblr.
  
• Deuce Richardson profiles director John Boorman.
• Steve Rose interviews Dina Amer, director of You Resemble Me, a biopic about a woman claimed to be Europe's first female suicide bomber, which turned out to be false. 
• Max Gao interviews Scott Caan, star of Hawaii Five-O, Ocean's Eleven, Alert: Missing Persosn Unit and many others.
  
• Radiator Heaven revisits the 1984 crime film A Flash of Green. 
• Sam Barsanti reports that Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos claims that Netflix has never cancelled a successful show. 
• British actress Sylvia Syms, star of My Teenage Daughter, Ice Cold in Alex, Victim, The Big Job, The Tamarind Seed and many others, has died aged 89.  
  

 

Comments on series 3 of Happy Valley:

• Michael Hogan shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Happy Valley.
• Alexi Duggins reports that the ending of series 3 of Happy Valley has been kept secret even from the show's stars and that multiple endings were filmed.
  

 

Comments on Poker Face: 

• Germain Lussier calls Poker Face a joyfully unique detective story.
• Saloni Gajjar declares that the premiere of Poker Face promises one hell of a TV show.
  
• Germain Lussier interviews Rian Johnson, director of The Last Jedi, Knives Out, Glass Onion and Poker Face.  
  

 

Comments on Mayor of Kingstown: 

• Antonella Gugliersi discusses the relationship between the characters Mike and Iris in season 2 of Mayor of Kingstown.
• Meredith Jacobs interviews Taylor Handley who plays Kyle in Mayor of Kingstown.
  
• The Guardian reports that Jeremy Renner, star of Hawkeye and Mayor of Kingstown, broke thirty bones during his snow-ploughing accident earlier this month.
• Paul P. Murphy reports that Jeremy Renner was trying to protect his nephew when he was run over by his own snow-plough. 
  

 

 Comments on Infinity Pool: 

• Jordan Hoffman calls Infinity Pool a brilliant and disturbing horror thriller. 
• Benjamin Lee calls Infinity Pool a full-on violent thriller. 
• Cheryl Eddy calls Infinity Pool an astonishing and outrageously icky triumph.
  

 

Awards:

• The finalists for the 2023 Agatha Awards have been announced.
  
• The finalists for the 2023 Academy Awards have been announced with little love for crime and action films.  
• The finalists for the 2023 Writers Guild Awards have been announced with little love for crime film.
  
• The finalists for the 2023 Golden Reel Awards have been announced with some love for crime TV. 
• The finalists for the 2023 DGA Awards have been announced with some love for genre film and TV.  
• The nominations for the 2023 Razzie Awards have been announced with  little attention for crime films. 
   

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Open Culture shares Stephen King's twenty rules for writers.
• Amber and Danielle Brown explain how they found their own distinct writing voice.
  
• Stephen Hunter shares an author's guide to stealing from the books you love. 
• James Davis Nicoll shares five ways writers can make sure that technology doesn't get in the way of storytelling. 
• Joyce Reynolds-Ward talks about serialisation.
• Lincoln Michel notes that maybe the reason that initiatives towards enhanced books have gone nowhere is because the book does not need to be disrupted.
  
• Victoria Strauss warns authors of the Hongkong based serialised fiction service Webnovel.

 

Interviews: 

• Elise Dungleton interviews Allison Brennan.
  
• Nancie Clare interviews Iris Yamashita.
• Robert Justice interviews Sulari Gentill. 
• Andrew Sumner interviews Max Allan Collins. 
• E.B. Davis interviews Annette Dashofy.
  
• Shane Whaley interviews David Brierley and Mike Ripley. 
• The Red Hot Chilli Writers interview Helen Fields. 
• It Was a Dark and Stormy Book Club interviews Claire Douglas.
  

Reviews:

• Sandra Mangan reviews The Last Remains by Elly Griffiths. 
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews The Bone Records by Rich Zahradnik.
  
• Nick Kolakowski reviews The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy.
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Nightmare Man by J.H. Markert. 
• Gwen Moffat reviews The Next To Die by Elliott Sweeney.
  
• Sandie Herron reviews The Devil You Know by P.J. Tracy. 
  
• Jen Lucas reviews So Pretty by Ronnie Turner. 
• Grab This Book reviews Mirrorland by Carole Johnstone. 
• Sandra Mangan reviews The House at the End of the World by Dean Koontz.
  
• Kathy Reel reviews Where the Guilty Hide by Annette Dashofy.  
• John Valeri reviews Reef Road by Deborah Goodrich Royce. 
• Michelle Carpenter reviews Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews She's Gone by David Bell.
  
• Anthony Cummins reviews The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier, translated by Daniel Levin Becker
• Mandie Griffiths reviews My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor.
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Damascus Station by David McCloskey.
  
• Jen Lucas reviews The Blood Line by Will Shindler. 
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Murder at Black Oaks by Philip Margolin.
• Grab This Book reviews The Library Suicides by Fflur Daffyd.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Needless Alley by Natalie Marlow. 
• Mike Parker reviews Needless Alley by Natalie Marlow. 
• Lynne Truss reviews The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett.   
• Jen Lucas reviews The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett.  
• Joy Kluver reviews The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett. 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Death and the Conjuror by Tom Mead.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Haunted by the Past by Simon R. Green. 
• Amy Myers reviews Death of a Traitor by M.C. Beaton and R.W. Green
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Frozen Detective by Amanda Flower.
  
• Gayle Surrette reviews A Murderous Persuasion by Katie Oliver. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Against the Currant by Olivia Matthews and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• Jen Lucas reviews A Womb with a View by Mark Tilbury. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Constant Hearses and Other Revolutionary Mysteries by Edward D. Hoch
• C.T. Phipps reviews Fatale Vol. 1: Death Chases Me by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips 
   

Classics reviews:

• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1866 gothic thriller A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1912 suspense novel The Chink in the Armour by Marie Belloc Lowndes.
  
• Isobelle Fabian and Mitzi M. Brunsdale revisit the 1915 mystery The Grand Duke's Last Chance by Frank Heller, translated by Robert Emoons Lee.
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1932 Hercule Poirot mystery Peril at End House by Agatha Christie. 
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1935 mystery Murder in Texas by Ada E. Lingo. 
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1935 mystery Death of an Author by E.C.R. Lorac. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1945 Armless O'Neill adventure story "Seekers of the Glittering Faith" by Dan Cushman.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1948 mystery Dead on Time by Clifford Witting.
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1974 Aquanauts men's adventure novel Operation Sea Monster by Ken Stanton a.k.a. Manning Lee Stokes. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1985 thriller The Happy Man by Eric C. Higgs.
  
• Dizz Tate revisits the 1993 novel The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides.
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1998 historical mystery The Devil's Domain by Paul Doherty.
  

Con and event reports:

• Promoting Crime Fiction shares the program and guests for the 2023 MysteryFest in Portsmouth, UK.
• Jeff Edwards reports about a mystery and thriller author event at the Katonah Public Library in Katonah, New York. 
• Sarah Shaffi reports about the ESEA Lit Fest, the first festival for East and South East Asian writing at Foyles on Charing Cross Road in London, UK. 
  

 

Crowdfunding:

• Fantasy author Grace Draven needs some help with medical expenses from cancer treatment.
  
• Artist Andrew "Android" Jones has lost his studio as well as everything inside to a fire and needs some help.

 

Research:

• John J. Lennon talks about life on Rikers Island in New York City, which he calls America's most brutal prison.
• Daniel Dylan Wray reports about the link between waste disposal and organised crime in the UK. 
• Vicki Simister reports about a trip to South America that turned into pure horror.
  

 

Free online fiction: 

• "So Sue Me" by Robert Bagnall in Shotgun Honey. 
• "Sunflowers" by Cristian Cantir in Shotgun Honey. 
• "Itch" by Jessica Hwang in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "Last Chance Tattoo" by K.P. Taylor in Mystery Tribune. 
• "Of the Living and the Dead" by Glen Bush in Mystery Tribune.
  
• "Clean Shot" by Ron Fein in Mystery Tribune.
  
• "Ben Hurt!" by Jim Guigli in Guilty.
• "Roe v. Wade Falls" by Jennifer Lagier in The Five-Two.
  

 

Trailers and videos:

•  Watch a trailer for She Came From the Woods.